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Fun Leap Year Facts

* Why do we have leap years?*

A leap year, where an extra day is added to the end of February every four years, is down to the solar system's disparity with the Gregorian calendar.
A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days.
So leap seconds - and leap years - are added as means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons.

The Roman calendar used to have 355 days with an extra 22-day month every two years until Julius Caesar became emperor in the 1st Century and ordered his Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes to devise something better.
Sosigenes decided on a 365-day year with an extra day every four years to incorporate the extra hours, and so February 29th was born.

The system was tweaked, however, about 500 years later.
As an earth year is not exactly 365.25 days long Pope Gregory XIII's astronomers decided to lose three days every 400 years when they introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582.
The maths has worked ever since but the system will need to be rethought in about 10,000 years' time.

Why does the extra day fall in February?

All the other months in the Julian calendar have 30 or 31 days, but February lost out to the ego of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus.
Under his predecessor Julius Caesar, Feb had 30 days and the month named after him - July - had 31. August had only 29 days.
When Caesar Augustus became Emperor he added two days to 'his' month to make August the same as July.
So February lost out to August in the battle of the extra days.

So what if you were born on Feb 29th?

The chances of having a leap birthday are one in 1,461. People who are born on February 29 are referred to as "leaplings", or "leapers". In non-leap years, many leaplings choose to celebrate their birthday on either February 28 or March 1, while purists stick to February 29 for the occasion.
Some suggest those born before midday on February 29 should celebrate their birthdays on February 28, while those born in the afternoon and evening of the 28th should celebrate their special day on March 1

About 4.1 million people around the world have been born on the 29th.
Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on February 29, and amethyst is the birthstone for this month.
Are you celebrating a birthday on February 29th?

Famous People born on Leap year

Big Leap Year Events

-First arrests in the Salem witchcraft trials, 1692.
-Panama Canal commission formed, 1904.
-"Gone With the Wind" wins big at the Academy Awards, 1940.
-First Playboy Club opens, 1960.
-"Family Circus" comic strip debuts, 1960.
-"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" named Album of the Year, 1968.
-(NHL fans) Gordie Howe hits his 800th goal, 1980.
-Gioachino Rossini born, 1792.
-Monkeys singer- Davy Jones dies, 2012.

Leap Year Capital of World

The city of Anthony which straddles Texas and New Mexico in the US, is the self-proclaimed Leap Year Capital of the World.
A four-day leap year festival is held there each leap year that includes a huge birthday party for all leap year babies.
Festivities begin on February 25 and continue until February 29, when there is a parade followed by a birthday dinner.

Other Fun Facts

-In Scotland, a leap year is thought to be bad for livestock. This is why the Scottish sometimes say, "Leap year was ne’er a good sheep year."
-In Italy, where they say "anno bisesto, anno funesto" (which means leap year, doom year), there are warnings against planning special activities such as weddings. In Italian this means In a leap year, women are erratic.( I think ;D )
-The Summer Olympic Games are always held in a leap year. This year, they take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-US presidential elections are held every four years, in a leap year.
-In Greece couples often avoid getting married in a leap year, believing it to be bad luck.
-If you work on a fixed annual wage, today is just one more day's work than you would usually have to do for your salary.
-a year that is divisible by 100, but not by 400, is not technically a leap year. Therefore 2000 was a leap year under the Gregorian calendar, as was 1600. But 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. "There's a good reason behind it," Ian Stewart, emeritus professor of mathematics, told the BBC. "The year is 365 days and a quarter long - but not exactly. If it was exactly, then you could say it was every four years." Pope Gregory and his astronomers' solution will have to be rethought in around 10,000 years, Prof Stewart points out.
-February 29 also marks Rare Disease Day
-Leap years are also known as intercalary or bissextile years.

Enjoy the day every one!!

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-Casava Films

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